Citation

Teicher MH, Glod CA, Surrey J, Swett C. J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 1993; 5(3): 301-306.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, American Neuropsychiatric Association, Publisher American Psychiatric Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8369640

Abstract

The authors investigated the hypothesis that early abuse might affect the development of the limbic system. During initial psychiatric evaluation, 253 outpatients completed a self-report scale, the Limbic System Checklist-33 (LSCL-33), designed to measure somatic, sensory, behavioral, and memory symptoms suggestive of temporal lobe epilepsy, along with a questionnaire about physical or sexual abuse. Physical abuse was associated with a 38% increase in LSCL-33 scores (P < 0.01), sexual abuse with a 49% increase (P < 0.02), and combined abuse with a 113% increase (P < 0.0001). Physical or sexual abuse alone was associated with elevated LSCL-33 scores only if the abuse occurred before age 18.

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